micro-rant

Florian Hars florian@hars.de
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:27:40 +0200


On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:12:46AM +1000, Richard Watson wrote:
> I'd like to add my vote for this. Its removal would result in a nicer language
> specification, and would remove a obstacle that novice programmers sometimes
> stumble over.

Yes, getting a sytax error if I write (x-1)*(-x-1) is a real stumbling block.

Yours, Florian.